Default the MultiSelectedItems in Combobox for Office365Users

[indhaa]

@WarrenBelz 

Hi

Can I have your thought on this?

So I have a Combo box, the Datasource is Office365Users. It is set to select multiple users. 

So I want to send all the selected items to SP column like this, so will be easier to view in View Mode.

With({_RUitms: RestrUsers.SelectedItems},
Concat(
ForAll(Sequence(CountRows(_RUitms)),
{_RUitms: Last(FirstN(_RUitms, Value)), seq:Value}
),
Text(seq) & ". " &
_RUitms.DisplayName & Char(10) &
"<"&_RUitms.Mail & ">" & Char(10)
))

So in Form Edit mode , I'm collecting this data to a Variable. So from the variable is it possible to lookup the email and select from the combobox. Want to set this rule in the Defaultselecteditems in the combobox.

I was able to do this using comma during Concat and putting this code in the Defaultselecteditems

RenameColumns(Split(varSelectedItems, ","), "Result", "Value") .

It does select all the items in the combobox but it doesn't display them in the Label.

Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Anyway I want to Concat using both Display Name and Email and Filter with Email since many user Name is not unique.

[indhaa]

@WarrenBelz   can help ?

[WarrenBelz]

@indhaa ,

You fundamental issue is nothing to do with your code - when you need to display multiple selected items in a combo box, the physical width of the box has to be able to display the items, otherwise it will simply show xxx items as it it doing for you.

As for the rest of it, I parsed your code (please see if you can do this ion your posts - it saves a lot of time on this end)

With(
   {_RUitms: RestrUsers.SelectedItems},
   Concat(
      ForAll(
         Sequence(
            CountRows(_RUitms)
         ),
         {
            _RUitms: 
            Last(
               FirstN(
                  _RUitms, Value
               )
            ), 
            seq:Value
         }
      ),
      Text(seq) & ". " &
      _RUitms.DisplayName & Char(10) &
      "<"&_RUitms.Mail & ">" & Char(10)
   )
)

and without understanding your model, it is a bit difficult to comment.

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[indhaa]

Hi

Sorry about that.

So I'm using the above code to patch to my SP List column.

So what I want is during Form Edit Mode, to select these items as the defaultselecteditems in my combo box.

Is it possible to do that if my data is like below

  1. Brian Jones <jones@gmail.com>

  2. Adam Jones<adam.J@gmail.com>

I was able to do it if I patch the data like jones@gmail.com, adam.J@gmail.com and using this code RenameColumns(Split(varSelectedItems, ","), "Result", "Value")    in the defaultselecteditems in my combo box.

However if it have more than 3 or 4 items it doesn't display all the items in the combo box.  That's why I have put a label but in the Form Edit Mode it is not showing them in the label. 

The label code is Concat(Combobox.SelectedItems,ThisRecord.DisplayName & "," & Char(10)).  When I look inside the combobox these items are not selected like it is when I select it normally.  Hope I'm making sense to you

It is not selected in the scroll bar and I'm assuming that's why not showing in the label.

So I want to know two things

1. Do I need to patch using "," to get the default selected items selected in the combo box. Or can I continue with the code I used and update this code RenameColumns(Split(varSelectedItems, ","), "Result", "Value")   to select the email on my data. If so can let me know how to do this. I tried but it not seem to be working

2. what I need to amend in my label code to show the defaultselecteditems

Concat(Combobox.SelectedItems,ThisRecord.DisplayName & "," & Char(10))

Hope I'm making sense to you.

[WarrenBelz]

Hi @indhaa ,

Assuming the valid output of your combo box is ComboBox.Selected.DisplayName then 

Concat(
   Combobox.SelectedItems,
   DisplayName & "," & Char(10)
)

should work in a label.

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[indhaa]

Hi,

Seem it is not an issue with my code. I'm trying using this as a guide https://www.fidelityfactory.com/blog/power-apps-multiple-default-values-in-a-combo-box but it seem this issue was faced by others based on the comment.

As I told before, even though it shows as selected, it is not really selected in below part (You can see in the image) which causes the issue. So when I click on the submit button it just update my data to blank.

[WarrenBelz]

@indhaa ,

Here is a test I just did - what is different in yours?

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[indhaa]

Sorry. I think you are not getting what I'm saying.

So after you select the users in your example, you going to submit the Form, right . So afterwards you want the users to be selected by default in your Edit Form Mode. How do you do that. That's where I'm getting the issue. 

If I select the users like how your are doing manually , it is showing in the label but if it is selected using the below code in the defaultselecteditems property during FORM EDIT,  It does select all the items in the combo box but it doesn't display them in the Label. Also it is patching blank values if I submit the form  again

RenameColumns(Split(varSelectedItems, ","), "Result", "Value") .

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

@indhaa ,

That is a very non-standard workaround for the small effort of simply displaying the items at the bottom. I would have to build a model to test it (and then like you have found, it may not work). 

When you have a standard multi-Select combo box (with the DefaultSelectedItems set to ThisItem.FieldName ) it will show all selected items in the drop-down list as below (I opened this in Edit Mode, but did not change it)

The Update of the Data Card is ComboBoxName.SelectedItems.

As I have posted, you can display the selected items below if you want.

What is it in this that does not meet your needs?

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[indhaa]

Hi

I think because I have Multi Line text column on my SP list. I'm not getting like you. I was trying to patch to this Text column and get the items selected using Split in Edit mode as in the article but later I saw the comments from other saying it doesn't work. 

Now I'm changing to Person or group column and testing like you. Am I doing it right now?